Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Malessa

#28,028 most common girls' name of all time · #45,344 across all names · 0% male / 100% female · used 1966–1992

Rank among girls
#28,028
Rank overall
#45,344 of 105,966
First appeared
1966
Years on the list
13 of 146
All-time
74
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1968 #6,148
Best rank
#6,148 1968
Girls Boys peak 7/yr
1980

Malessa first appears in 1966. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1992 5 — 5 #13,892
1988 5 — 5 #12,439
1985 5 — 5 #11,298
1982 5 — 5 #11,209
1976 7 — 7 #7,756
1974 5 — 5 #9,488
1973 5 — 5 #9,131
1972 7 — 7 #7,043
1971 7 — 7 #7,172
1970 5 — 5 #8,829
1968 7 — 7 #6,148
1967 5 — 5 #7,628
1966 6 — 6 #6,534